I am standing upon the seashore. A ship at my side spreads her white sails to the morning breeze, and starts for the blue ocean. She is an object of beauty and strength, and I stand and watch her until she hangs like a speck of white cloud just where the sea and sky come down to meet and mingle with each other. Then someone at my side says: “There! She’s gone!” Gone where? Gone from my sight—that is all. She is just as large in mast and hull and spar as she was when she left my side, and just as able to bear her load of living freight to the place of her destination. Her diminished size is in me and not in her. And just at that moment when someone at my side says: “There! She’s gone!” there are other eyes that are watching for her coming; and other voices ready to take up the glad shout: “There she comes!” And that is—"dying." by Henry Van Dyke

Because I Love You So Time will not dim the face I love, The voice I heard each day, The many things you did for me, In your own special way. All my life I’ll miss you, As the years come and go, But in my heart I’ll keep you, Because I love you so. Anon Ann, Jenny, Angie and Family xx

A much loved husband, father and gandfather who was taken from us much too soon and quicker than expected. He is sadly missed and always in our thoughts. Any donations to Bowel Cancer UK in Alan's memory are much appreciated. Ann and Jennifer, Angela, Joe, Theo, Fenton and Iris